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Cowboys DC Rod Marinelli: Kiffin’s new role will be ‘huge’

Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin sorts through notes while working in the photographers workroom prior to the first half of NFL football action against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Detroit, MI on Sunday, October 27, 2013. (Brad Loper/The Dallas Morning News)

INDIANAPOLIS — The Cowboys insist Monte Kiffin will be actively involved in the defense. Head coach Jason Garrett said as much after Kiffin was given a confusing new title – assistant head coach/defense — that sounded like the football version of some employee database job label tantamount to “account executive II.”

But Rod Marinelli, who will replace Kiffin as defensive coordinator, insists his predecessor really will have a “huge role.”

“He’ll be in there every day with us — film, working drills, all the things,” Marinelli said. “What a tremendous resource and a great coach. Great coach. Got great respect for him.”

Marinelli’s comment dovetailed with Garrett’s description of Kiffin’s new job.

“He’ll be here every day at all the meetings, on the practice field and all of those things,” Garrett said. “To have him in that role, where he is overseeing things and maybe looking at it from a different perspective, can be a real positive things for us. Just how well he and Rod work together and have worked together for such a long time we just think it is such an asset to us to have that kind of expertise and experience for our team. Those guys in combination with our defensive staff can be a real positive thing for us.”

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